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Old Posted May 7, 2021, 1:29 AM
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Old Posted May 7, 2021, 1:09 PM
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King Street East. Saint John, NB. I love this street.

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Edit: more of Saint John's southern peninsula. I love the gritty feeling.

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Old Posted May 7, 2021, 10:16 PM
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King Street East could look really beautiful with a remake of the road and public realm. Reduce the road to 2 lanes, triple/quadruple the width of the sidewalk, install quality paving, bury the electrical, attractive lamp posts, and heavily landscape the entire stretch? A similar upgrade on the other street would do wonders. Those streets have great bones but they're really quite shabby and depressing the way they are. It's all tarmac, poles, and wires. The vinyl siding has to go too.

There's no reason it can't one day look as good as that Main Street in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
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Old Posted May 8, 2021, 1:23 AM
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I like those Saint John streets
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Old Posted May 8, 2021, 2:26 AM
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I like those Saint John streets
I think they're beautiful as they are but I'd also think they were beautiful in a more polished condition. SJ actually has areas of both, and I enjoy both, but the areas like these that seem more intricately weathered and patinaed with various renovation, additions, parts that are sagging, chipped and worn, etc. just intrigue me more. Those things provide the extra dimension of time to an environment and make it seem so much deeper and more complex. Sometimes when historic buildings are perfectly restored and maintained they don't have much more depth than a new building.
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I really need to check SJ out soon. Looks like a great pocket-size big city.
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I wonder how many of those larger old apartment buildings in Montreal still have intact original interiors and elevators?
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many of the low-rise (4-5 storey) buildings still have the washtub elevators with a door that opens outwards, and a screen that closes in front. Larger buildings have upgraded their elevators. Interiors? Much the same in many if not most of the old structures. Many have plastered walls that just keep getting painted over, and the original hardwood flooring. There's that smell that goes with old buildings....not exactly unpleasant, but just the smell like an old church...woody, linseed oil, smell of old paper, etc.
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A few shots of the Halifax area's gloomier sides, from a recent CBC article on the clusters of cheap but gentrifying midcentury apartments that I've mentioned a few times lately. Of course, buildings like these ones are scattered all over the urban area, but there are a handful of areas that are really dominated by them. Fairview/Dutch Village has a lot of these too and that's one area that's really been gentrifying lately.

Pinecrest-Highfield area of North Dartmouth:



Same area but looking out towards the Basin. The vacant land to the left of the bridge on the Dartmouth side is the abandoned/demolished Shannon Park (defunct military housing):



The 500 Block of Herring Cove Road in Spryfield, actually really close to my high school. The side streets are a mix of mid-market 60s SFHs, brand new McMansions and tract subdivisions, these dreary CMHC-type apartment buildings in various states of disrepair, a large public housing project, and a trailer park thrown in for good measure. It looks a bit less depressing when the trees have leaves Bonus - rare "rear view" of the South End skyline:


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I'm not sure if it's okay to post this here or not. It's a great short video shot over parts of Victoria.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPJN6UD2mfQ
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Thank you Martin! Excellent batch this week.

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I'm not sure if it's okay to post this here or not. It's a great short video shot over parts of Victoria.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPJN6UD2mfQ
There's also a thread specifically for videos it would make a nice addition to!
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Pardon my image manipulation, but who gets the garden/space in the back? The people on the first floor, or is it shared? Actually, in light of all the steps up to the first floor, would it only be the basement that walks out to the grade in the back, with the other three floors above it having balconies?
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Old Posted May 16, 2021, 9:07 PM
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Thank you Martin! Excellent batch this week.



There's also a thread specifically for videos it would make a nice addition to!
Thank you. I didn't know of that thread. I just added it.
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Old Posted May 17, 2021, 3:22 PM
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